Quotes About Serenity

True enough, the country is calm. Calm as a morgue or a grave, would you not say?

Out of every kind of nervousness I didn't move.

Be gracious, Master, and allow The worlds to rest from trouble now;

Your closet should me you feel giddy, like you're surrounded by beauty. It should be your happy place, giving you a sense of safety and competence.

Was it so much to ask just to be left alone?

I've never known a tranquil atheist. Don't they always look like they just sat on a tack?

He places placidity above all                And refuses to prettify weapons;        If one prettifies weapons,                This is to delight in the killing of other..

It is not enough to be happy, one must be content.

Here we stop. On the threshold of wedding nights stands an angel smiling, a finger to his lips.

Never had the sky been more studded with stars and more charming, the trees more trembling, the odor of the grass more penetrating; never had the birds fallen asleep among the leaves with a sweeter noise; never had all the harmonies of universal serenity responded more thoroughly to the inward music of love; never had Marius been more captivated, more happy, more ecstatic.

Let's not bring flame where light is enough.

Peace is happiness digesting

He loved to saunter through fields of wild oats and corn-flowers, and busied himself with clouds nearly as much as with events.

To blame or praise men on account of the result, is almost like praising or blaming figures on account of the sum total. Whatever is to happen, happens; whatever is to blow, blows. The eternal serenity does not suffer from these north winds. Above Revolutions, Truth and Justice reign, as the starry heavens above the tempest.

He fell to the seat, she by his side. There were no more words. The stars were beginning to shine. How was it that their lips met? How is it that the birds sing, the the snow melts, that the rose opens, that May blooms, that the dawn whitens behind the black trees on the shivering summit of the hills?

He was fond of saying, There is a bravery of the priest as well as the bravery of a colonel of dragoons,--only, he added, ours must be tranquil.

He fell to the seat, she by his side. There no more words. The stars were beginning to shine. How was it that their lips met? How is it that the birds sing, the the snow melts, that the rose opens, that May blooms, that the dawn whitens behind the black trees on the shivering summit of the hills?

She is resigned, with that resignation resembling indifference as death resembles sleep.

Sleep in Peace, God is awake.

His brain was in one of those states that are both violent and yet frighteningly calm, in which thought runs so deep it blots out reality. You no longer see the objects around you, yet you can see the shapes in your mind as thought they are outside your body.

The circumstances of happiness are not enough, there must also be peace of mind

Whatever may be happening today, peace is the meaning of tomorrow

j'avais le paradis dans le coeur.

Mes amis! qui de vous, qui de nous n'a souvent, Quand le deuil à l'oeil sec, au visage rêvant, Cet ami sérieux qui blesse et qu'on révère, Avait sur notre front posé sa main sévère, Qui de nous n'a cherché le calme dans un chant!